Browsing Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM) by Subject "Africa"
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Adapting to Climate Change through a Paradigm Shift in Rural Development: The Case of Westgate Conservancy in Samburu County, Kenya
(Department of Sociology and Social Work, 2012-08)Climate change poses a plethora of challenges to agro-pastoral production in Africa resulting in different adaptation practices; some household-based, others community-based; many studies focus on the former. This paper ... -
Adopting electricity prepayment billing system to reduce non-technical energy losses in Uganda: Lesson from Rwanda
(Elsevier, 2012)Uganda is contemplating adopting an electricity prepayment billing system (EPBS) as an intervention to reduce non-technical energy losses. To provide more insight on EPBS a study was formulated to assess potential benefits ... -
African family and child welfare: Tradition in transition
(Joensuu University PressInstitute Of Anthropology, Gender And African Studies, University of Nairobi, 1999)Many aspects of African traditional family patterns and child-rearing practices are increasingly being challenged by news pressures, reevaluated against emerging values and replaced by new arrangements as part of a continuing ... -
Building Synergies Between Ethical And Business Values For Better Institutional Performance In Africa
(Department of Philosophy, University of Nairobi, 2011)Businesses and corporate organizations globally are struggling to stay afloat amidst the biting effects of the economic crisis. The global economic crisis, increasing competition and the increasing cases of corporate and ... -
China and Africa: Win-Win Strategies for the Clothing Trade
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China, region-centric infrastructure drives and regionalism in Africa
(Routledge, 2020-11-30)This article provides a structural reading of the complexities of region-centric infrastructure drives, African regionalism and the role of China. Four structural layers underlying China’s engagement in the region are ... -
Dialogue between an African christology and Karl Rahner's christology
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Exit the State: Decentralization and the Need for Local Social, Political, and Economic Considerations in Water Resource Allocation in Madagascar and Kenya1
(Institute For Development Studies, 2008)This paper focuses on the iconoclasticism of water as a plentiful resource and the near universalization of decentralizing institutions to manage it. The authors explore two agro‐pastoral regions — Ambovombe District ... -
Hope on the horizon: Essays on the status and liberation of African women
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Impacts of rural energy costs and availabilities in Kenya
(Institute for Development Studies, 1987-01-01)This study sought to examine energy-consumption patterns in a cross section of rural households in Kenya and to analyze how these use patterns relate to socio-economic, demographic, institutional, and energy market factors. ... -
Introduction. China-Africa Relations: Interdisciplinary Question and Theoretical Perspectives
(BRILL, 2020-10-20)The study of China-Africa relations has been approached from a wide array of disciplines. Three theoretical perspectives are now common in the literature: Realism, Liberalism and Social Constructivism. Realism sees China’s ... -
Linking the Role of Government to Internet Diffusion in Nigeria: Is the 'Giant'of Africa Awakening?
(2012)This paper focuses on the role of government in the development of the Internet, as a representative artifact of a National Information Infrastructure (NII) of a country. We consider Nigeria, a developing country that has ... -
Mitigating African Conflicts Through Securitization of Development
(DBA, Africa Management ReviewSchool of Business, University of Nairobi, 2013-08)The 1990s introduced profound shifts in the realm of peace and security in Africa. With the demise of the Cold War, the East-West tension eased considerably. South Africa and Namibia installed democratically elected ... -
National culture and organizational capabilities of IT offshoring services in Kenya
(2013)The pervasive adoption of outsourced information technology (IT) services has made the multi-billion dollar information technology outsourcing industry become important to individual organizations and governments as well. ... -
Persistence of Features of Traditional Healing in the Churches in Africa: The Case of the Akurinu Churches in Kenya
(Department of Philosophy and Religious studies, University of Nairobi, 2009-12)One of the attractions of new converts from mainline churches to the African Instituted Churches (AICs) is faith healing. Healing understood in its wider sense as the restoration of the wholeness of life is not new to ... -
Poverty reduction in Africa: Challenges and policy options
(African Economic Research Consortium, 2002)The paper looks at the magnitude and evolution of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1980–1998. It examines the spread, depth and severity of poverty for the region as well as for specific countries, in part ... -
The state of population in Eastern and Southern Africa
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Towards a Nomadic E-Government Co-Evolutionary Framework (NECE) for Building Knowledge Infrastructures for African Countries
(2009)Purpose - E-Government, introduced in African countries under the banner of New Public Management (NPM), is envisaged to fundamentally aid in improving governance in developing countries. The imported model of EGovernment ... -
Unobserved heterogeneity and the relation between earnings and firm size: evidence from two developing countries
(ElsevierDepartment of Economics, University of Nairobi,, 2005)Large firms in Ghana and Kenya pay much higher wages than small ones. We use panel data to show this is not the result of employing high-ability individuals. The size effect remains substantial with controls for individual ...